"In A Personal Record, I think, Conrad told us that it was there, in lodgings, that his career as a writer began, while he was waiting for the landlady's daughter to clear away the breakfast tray. And I can understand the scene perfectly: for it is after breakfast in London lodgings, after tea and bacon and toast, to be precise, when you are lighting your pipe and warming the slack of your breeks at a miniscule warmth of coals, that one can feel most easily the flowing movement of mind that presages authorship."
--Christopher Morley, The Romany Stain